Quinoa and Raw Veggie Salad with Green Goddess Dressing

I have a tendency to think that when you’re eating raw vegetables, you need a pretty robust dip, sauce, or dressing to contend with. I love a chunky salad, but a vinaigrette just gets lost among the concrete carrot discs. Hand me a ranch or a green goddess dressing and I’ll forgive you.

I eat this salad with whatever leftover grain-type thing I have in the fridge – quinoa or brown rice usually, but you can experiment with what you like or what you have on hand (or both, if you’re lucky).

I particularly like this green goddess dressing in late summer and you’ve got a thousand bunches of basil going nuts in the garden, in amongst all that stuff you planted because you thought it would be useful to have but never actually used. You can put almost anything green in this dressing. I also like to make it when I’ve got homemade mayonnaise leftover that needs using up.

Also, don’t go too crazy with the tarragon unless you like your salad to taste of licorice. In which case, you’re probably pregnant and you should get that checked out.

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This looks so colourful and delicious!! I have to raid your blog to find some vegetarian dishes I can cook for my neighbor next door who has just had twins. As soon as she told me she was vegetarian I had to make a mental note to go through your blog! Hope you e been keeping well lovely! Xx

hey Stacey,,,,,loving my salads too now the weather’s warming up but I have to have some kind of dressing on it as well or they just get too blah……besides dressing maes it fun because then you can undress it lol 😉

Every time I attempt to do anything quinoa, it ends with me in the fetal position on the kitchen floor. Rice = fine. Couscous = fine. Damn triple chocolate hazelnut torte = fine. It must be the old gypsy curse that was placed on me, one late night in St Kilda. I have to give it a go, so I’ll have to substitute rice. Or, just stick the veggies straight in the sour cream?